(via Ankush) 21 pieces of small advice ONE. Give! people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other. THREE. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you [...]
Archive for November, 2005
21 Bytes of Wisdom
Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Diversification Produces Mediocrity
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Many times I ask stock market experts or those that claim to be (many of them around with Sensex crossing the 9K mark), give me one stock, to invest 50% of my savings, they express immediate caution. Their sincere advice “Shrikant you should have a basket of 10 stocks” and “then a split between real [...]
Learning from WestJet
Posted in best know method on November 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I had not heard about WestJet, till I read about them in Reader’s Digest. WestJet is a maverick low cost carrier born in 1996 with 3 planes and 220 employees and serviced 5 western cities. WestJet is a low cost airline or carrier that was profitable from year one. In 1996 from US$2.1 million to [...]
Learning From : Nebraska Furniture Market
Posted in best know method on November 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
These are notes from a visit to NFM by students from Tuck school of management at Dartmouth. Some students described this visit to Nebraska where they also met Warren Buffett, the legendary investor, the highlight of their trip. Tour of Nebraska Furniture Mart: Upon entering the enormous furniture superstore, Bob Batt, along with employees Jeff [...]
A Tribute to Peter Drucker
Posted in Uncategorized on November 13, 2005 | 2 Comments »
I have been personally influenced by Peter Drucker via his articles and books. He was also mentor to former Intel CEO Andy Grove and lot of the foundations of Intel culture, which I admire in the non-diluted form, were for sure qualified by him. The Vienna-born Ducker died Friday at age 95 of natural causes [...]
Why Blog ? For your career
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2005 | 2 Comments »
(Via Tim Bray) talks about why blogging is good for your career. For a fact blogs help you to have a personal identity on the web. Help you share your opinions and qualified content with friends, colleagues, fellow hobbyists and further your network. Career employees find new employers, VCs find prospective ideas, employers find employees [...]
India and China : Superficial Superpowers ?
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2005 | 2 Comments »
(via YaleGlobal online) Every day, countless commentators prophesize the ascendance of the world’s next superpowers, China and India, the two “Asian giants” shaking off their ancient slumber and rising to the call of the 21st century. According to popular punditry, their place in the firmament of globalization’s success stories is already guaranteed. Yet economist Pranab [...]
India’s “Quantity and Quality” Engineer Statistics.
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2005 | 1 Comment »
(via Mckinsey) India produces close to 4 lakh engineering graduates every year from 1,346 institutions. Some choose to pursue further studies in India and abroad, some get jobs but most keep job hunting or start up a small business. Net only 25% that graduate are employable. This additional 75% create huge inefficiencies in corporate hiring, [...]
India’s Broadband Tragedy
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The government had forecasted 3 million Broadband lines to be deployed by December ’05. To date only only 0.61 million have been deployed. Private operators, likes of Bharti, Sify etc. have deployed 0.35 million and the two PSUs, BSNL and MTNL that control 40+ million lines of copper have deployed only 0.26 million vs a [...]
